Word: seasickers
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...Long's chores keep him below decks much of the time, poring over charts- an occupation that undoubtedly contributes to his mal de mer. "I don't see how Huey enjoys sailing," says an Ondine deck hand. "He's seasick all the time. During the whole Bermuda race, he only ate a couple of pieces of bread and drank a little water...
...like an Evinrude. Senator William Fulbright rattled off the word commitment 15 times in one interview. And Congressman Gerald Ford got so hung up on a metaphor about the "ship of state" in "a storm-tossed sea" that Reasoner correctly observed: "People were beginning to feel seasick...
...Aussies have another hope too. Could be that Bus Mosbacher will get seasick-which, at times, he does...
...fall for her hook, line and sinker. The former Ohio beauty queen, now chief secretary and consoler of Harlem's self-exiled Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, entered the annual blue-marlin tournament in Bimini, first day out aboard Adam's Fancy made all the muscular males seasick by delicately hauling in a huge, 459-lb. blue. That was enough to win Corrine the tourney right there, but to make everyone more jealous she boated a 473-pounder two days later. Adam himself stayed out of the tournament, explained Sponsor Roland McCann, "so she would have the best chance...
...unusual things have happened to Ruth Briggs in her career-and could happen again. Among the first WACs to be sent overseas, she quickly found herself in charge of a packed lifeboat after her ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean-and the senior British officer in the lifeboat became seasick. "Being a Rhode Islander," she explains, "I've been around small boats all my life...